Diane zinna the all night sun5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() When I was finally able to come back to the page, it felt like my writing voice was my own again. For a long time, I couldn’t face it, so I focused instead on teaching. Every time I sat down to write, the stories would become grief-stricken tales of mother loss. But on my graduation day from my MFA program, my mother passed away, and what followed was about a decade of not writing at all. I was one of the only women in a writing program with all male teachers, and I think my writing changed a lot to please the people in the classroom. ![]() All through school, I got attention for inventive stuff I was doing with language and the dark stories I told. I got a degree in creative writing in 1998, and was believed I was ready to start a life of writing books and publishing at 24. Lauren thinks that Sweden at Midsommar will be an escape from her depression and isolation, but her past comes along for the trip, and her friendship with Siri begins to fall apart. After an international student named Siri joins her class, the two bond quickly over loss, and the girl invites her to travel home to Sweden with her for the summer. The story follows Lauren Cress, a young adjunct professor who has long been grieving the deaths of her parents alone. My first novel was The All-Night Sun (Random House, 2020). Q: What was the first book that you have published? ![]()
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